A Practical, High Fashion Update to the Traditional Hospital Gown

The hospital gown is the one object that follows the patient to every single part of the hospital experience. It hasn't been touched in over 100 years since its v1, which is why I designed Gown 2.0.

Design Team

Dustin Le

The hospital is a notoriously disease-centric organization, focusing on the ailments of the patients and not the patients themselves. The Gown 2.0 is designed to inject some humanness into this system. Blending high fashion with hospital functionality, this new hospital gown aims to be the new standard at hospitals. It uses a blend of antibacterial lyocell and polyester to make a product that is symmetrical so as to be used front and back. This allows mobile patients to dress themselves while making it easy for caretakers to dress their patient.

Thanks for your comment! The gown is designed to function front and back exactly for the purpose you mentioned. When worn with the opening in the front, nurses are able to quickly access the chest/torso area by pulling the panels apart to remove the snaps. When worn with the opening in the back, the Gown 2.0 functions in the same way that the traditional gown works.

It is very interesting. Could you please post the correct link with more pictures/drawings? Still don't really understand how it works.

As a patient, I prefer Velcro attachments. But nurses say they lose the stickiness after many washes. I also think that there should be different style of gowns for different purposes. We probably don't need any passive access for outpatients such as MRI or X-ray imagining. At my local hospital, they give you 2 gowns to wear front and back. It's a huge waste of washing.

One thing that is always puzzling me is pap exam. They will give you a sheet of 3'x4' paper to cover up, but the gynecologist needs access to the breast and the vagina. So you are just putting it like a napkin on your belly. What's the point? I find it more undignified than completely naked. It would be huge if someone can come up with a gown with breasts access.

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